It differed from what an undergraduate receives today from any American college or university mainly in the certainty of what he was forced to learn compared with the loose and widely scattered information obtained today by most of our undergraduates.

In a detailed letter published in the Scientific American in 1912, he remarked that `` loose statements '' about the case showed scant understanding of the facts.

A melanistic jaguar loose in a South American city is the central figure in the 1942 novel Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich.

In 2008, Pegasus Books published The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo, a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman which endeavoured to pick up where the original Macbeth left off, and to resolve its many loose ends.

Many surviving Native American peoples of the southeast strengthened their loose coalitions of language groups and joined confederacies such as the Choctaw, the Creek, and the Catawba for protection.

In fact, several stories and books describing the aftermath of a total American victory in the Third World War — such as " Sam Hall " and its loose sequel " Three Worlds to Conquer " as well as " Shield "— are scarcely less bleak than the above-mentioned depictions of a Soviet victory.

The use of " cold steel " to force the enemy to retreat was very successful in numerous small unit engagements at short range in the American Civil War, as most troops would retreat when charged while in the process of reloading ( which could take up to a minute with loose powder even for trained troops ).

The Western Lakes Confederacy was a loose confederacy of tribes around the Great Lakes region following the American Revolutionary War organized to resist the expansion of the US into the Northwest Territory.

Another loose silent American adaptation came in 1919, under the title Impossible Catherine.

* Clothing – In Native American lodges participants usually wear a simple garment such as shorts or a loose dress.

The American Soldier is the third and final installment of Fassbinder ’ s loose trilogy of gangster pictures formed by Love is Colder Than Death and Gods of the Plague.

Although inspired in part by Tiki carvings and mythology, the connection is loose and stylistic, being an American kitsch form and not a Polynesian fine art form.

Vawter was an American landscape artist and illustrator known for his loose Impressionist style.

The Jitters, a 1989 American film, focused on mayhem involving a jiangshi getting loose in the United States.

For the next four years, it was little more than a loose association of a few Montreal merchants who discussed how they might break the stranglehold the Hudson's Bay Company held on the North American fur trade.

In loose American English usage, the terms " sewerage " and " sewage " are sometimes used interchangeably.

Additionally, Hinckley had been arrested four days earlier at the Metropolitan Airport in Nashville, Tennessee, when he attempted to board an American Airlines flight for New York with three handguns and some loose ammunition in his carry-on bag.

Although, through alliances with various Native American tribes, the French were able to exert a loose control over much of the North American continent, areas of French settlement were generally limited to the St. Lawrence River Valley.

While the UK railway system persisted until post-nationalisation in 1948 with " unfitted " ( discontinuously braked ) trains and loose couplings ( the final unfitted trains ran in the 1980s ), other systems, such as the North American adoption of the Janney coupler, overcame the same railway safety issues in a different manner.

From its inception in as a loose coalition of various regional teams, the American Professional Football Association had comparatively few African-American players ; a total of nine black people suited up for NFL teams between 1920 and 1926.

In addition to these two loose groupings, a number of prominent Irish poets of the second half of the 20th century could be described as outsiders, although these poets could also be considered leaders of a mainstream tradition in the Republic which was critically eclipsed by the Ulster-centric focus of American and British-based Irish Studies academics and the prejudices of others who are gender study specialists.

More casual suits are characterized by less construction and tailoring, much like the sack suit is a loose American style.

American house spiders are synanthropic and build their tangled webs in or near human dwellings, often in secluded areas such as between loose walls and behind open doors and attic windows.

A loose remake of the film, Day of the Dead, was released straight to DVD on April 8, 2008.

The 2005 film Guess Who starring Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac is a loose remake styled as a comedy rather than a drama, with the racial roles reversed ; black parents are caught off-guard when their daughter brings home the young white man she has chosen to marry.

* Cosmic Voyage ( 1996 ), a loose remake of Powers of Ten for the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.

2005 saw Hawke star in the action thriller Assault on Precinct 13, a loose remake of John Carpenter's 1976 film of the same title, with an updated plot.

) That same year she also appeared in Switching Channels, which was a loose remake of the 1940 hit film His Girl Friday ; this, in turn, was a loose remake of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur comedy The Front Page.

A loose remake entitled Kakushi Toride no San-Akunin: The Last Princess was directed by Shinji Higuchi and released on May 10, 2008.

In December 2009, Zhang Yimou released a loose remake of the film as a comedy.

It is a loose remake of his own 1932 silent film I Was Born, But ....

* Guess Who ( film ), loose 2005 remake of the 1967 film

The film is a loose remake of the 1955 film The Private War of Major Benson, starring Charlton Heston.

Super Pitfall is a loose remake of Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, in that the object is to move Harry through the mazes to find the Raj diamond, and rescue his niece Rhonda and sidekick Quickclaw, both of whom have become lost in the caverns.

It released on June 29 2001, and is a loose remake of the 1996 American dark-comedy, Fargo.

The film is a loose remake of The Street with No Name ( 1948 ), by the same screenwriter ( Harry Kleiner ) and cinematographer ( Joseph MacDonald ) as in the original.

is a loose remake of the 1969 film for the original Akakage series.

Area 51 is a first-person shooter survival horror video game that was released in 2005 ( 2006 in Japan ) and it was developed by Midway Studios Austin and published by Midway for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows, and is a loose remake of the 1995 light gun video game of the same name, and was followed in 2007 by the loosely related BlackSite: Area 51.

* The 1998 film Wild Wild West, a loose remake of the 1960s TV series of a similar name, also featured Kevin Kline as a decoy of the President ; Kline plays both the President ( Ulysses S. Grant ) and his decoy ( Artemus Gordon ).

In January 2007, it was reported that the sequel, tentatively titled The Topkapi Affair, would be a loose remake of the 1964 film Topkapi starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, and Peter Ustinov.

The film is a loose remake of and quasi-sequel to the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), which Henkel had co-written with Tobe Hooper.